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Jon

@tchambers what's somewhat alarming here is that apparently the spam is winding up on federated timelines even on instances where nobody's following the spammers. So that means that when threads accounts that nobody's following makes transphobic-but-acceptable-to-threads posts they can wind on federated timelines. Of course they can then get reported, and mods can remove them ... but still, there are so many threads accounts that it sounds like a recipe for mod burnout.

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Tim Chambers

@jdp23 Can you give specific examples of this?

"what's somewhat alarming here is that apparently the spam is winding up on federated timelines even on instances where nobody's following the spammers. "

I've not seen that. I've seen lots of @ messaging spam mainly so far.

Jon

@tchambers I haven't seen it myself but I'm told it's the case. I've even expressed my befuddlement: I thought stuff only showed up on the federated timeline if somebody was following them or somebody who boosted it, or if somebody local boosted it. But apparently I'm wrong about that?

Tim Chambers

@jdp23 I've not seen it yet either, but will keep my eyes open -- If you do find it share me a screen shot.

Jon

oh that's a good point, I hadn't thought of that! @gunchleoc

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